{"product_id":"2026200012003-secondhand-john-perceval-painting-down-the-bay","title":"John Perceval: Painting Down The Bay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew Australian artists captured the raw, shimmering beauty of coastal life with the visceral intensity of John Perceval, and John Perceval: Painting Down the Bay stands as a vivid testament to that singular vision. This exhibition catalogue chronicles Perceval's immersive engagement with Port Phillip Bay, presenting a rich body of work in which tidal flats, weathered boats, and salt-bleached shorelines pulse with an almost feverish energy. Curated by Rodney James for the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, the publication documents a series of paintings that reveal the artist at his most instinctive and unguarded, translating the restless movement of water and light into bold, gestural strokes.\n\nPerceval, a towering figure of the Heide Circle and a central voice in mid-twentieth-century Australian modernism, brought to his bay paintings the same fierce emotionalism that defined his celebrated ceramic angels and figurative works. His style — impastoed, urgent, and deeply personal — resists the picturesque in favour of something altogether more elemental, situating the everyday coastal environment within a grand painterly tradition. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of Australian art, this catalogue raises a compelling question: what does it mean to truly *see* a place, and can a landscape ever be fully possessed by paint?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160810365147,"sku":"2026200012003-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/edce8d68-edd2-49d8-9399-25c69dea28cd.png?v=1787187730","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012003-secondhand-john-perceval-painting-down-the-bay","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}